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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
by Jenny Han
What do I even say?? I so quickly fell for Lara Jean, and that Kitty, she's quite a riot. I have to hand it to [a:Jenny Han|151371|Jenny Han|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1492645464p2/151371.jpg], she really got me into the head of her MC without overdoing the dramatically tumultuous inner dialogue of many a teen novel. I couldn't stop reading. Several passages (Chapter 20 in particular!) had me bent over trying to contain my laughter at 8AM on the train, and as the story progressed I encountered ALL THE FEELS. While this YA series is certainly light, it's not too fluffy or shallow, it's topically relevant in a way that added to the story, and is exactly the feel-good romp I've been craving lately. I'm so glad I purchased the trilogy and that I got them at the same time because I'm not going to be able to stop, I mean, in one day of commuting I barreled through 220 pages!
At the start of Lara Jean's junior year, her older sister/best friend Margot left for college in Scotland and she has been thrust into extra responsibilities in taking care of their younger sister Kitty. She's doing ok despite recently wrecking Margot's car, until the letters she's been hoarding for the handful of boys she loved before mysteriously make their way out from the hiding place and into the hands of those very boys. The true wrench in the situation is that one of the boys is Josh, their neighbor and the long-time boyfriend Margot recently dumped. In order to make it seem like she is well and truly over Josh, she literally throws herself onto Peter (another letter recipient) in the school hallway.They draw up a contract to "date" so they can both get over former loves and stumble over/around/into feelings they never expected.
Just like I've felt with the characters of Rainbow Rowell and Becky Albertalli, I wish I could jump into the book and befriend and team up with the adorable Song girls for lazing about the house or designing the Christmas Cookie Bonanza (and I doubly hope to one day have a daughter as level-headed and quirky as Lara Jean is).
At the start of Lara Jean's junior year, her older sister/best friend Margot left for college in Scotland and she has been thrust into extra responsibilities in taking care of their younger sister Kitty. She's doing ok despite recently wrecking Margot's car, until the letters she's been hoarding for the handful of boys she loved before mysteriously make their way out from the hiding place and into the hands of those very boys. The true wrench in the situation is that one of the boys is Josh, their neighbor and the long-time boyfriend Margot recently dumped. In order to make it seem like she is well and truly over Josh, she literally throws herself onto Peter (another letter recipient) in the school hallway.
Just like I've felt with the characters of Rainbow Rowell and Becky Albertalli, I wish I could jump into the book and befriend and team up with the adorable Song girls for lazing about the house or designing the Christmas Cookie Bonanza (and I doubly hope to one day have a daughter as level-headed and quirky as Lara Jean is).